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The Beasts and the Everlasting Gospel
Revelation 13:1–14:20
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This song belongs to the Revelation collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.
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Named in this songBabylon
About the passage
Revelation 13: Worship is demanded, displayed, and enforced
The dragon's earthly war takes institutional form in two beasts. The first rises from the sea with features gathered from Daniel's empires and receives power, a throne, and authority from the dragon. A healed mortal wound produces amazement that becomes worship. The beast boasts, blasphemes, and wages war against the saints for a strictly limited forty-two months. A second beast looks lamb-like but speaks like the dragon, using signs, an animated image, threatened death, and economic exclusion to direct worship toward the first. The Book of Revelation makes allegiance the center of the chapter. The mark controls buying and selling, while the number 666 is tied to the beast's name and calls for wisdom rather than speculative certainty. The chapter presents counterfeit authority, counterfeit resurrection-like recovery, counterfeit signs, and coerced worship, all operating with power repeatedly described as given rather than ultimate.
Study Revelation 13 in depthRevelation 14: The Lamb's company and the earth's harvest
Chapter 14 answers the beast's mark with the Father's name on the foreheads of a redeemed company standing with the Lamb on Sion. Their song, truthfulness, and following of the Lamb form a direct contrast with the deception and coerced worship of chapter 13. Three angels then announce a worldwide call to honor the Creator, Babylon's fall, and the severe judgment associated with worship of the beast and receipt of its mark. A blessing on those who die in the Lord interrupts the warnings with the promise of rest. The chapter closes with two harvest scenes. The first shows a crowned figure like the Son of man reaping a ripe earth without explicitly naming the crop's fate. The second is unmistakably judgment: ripe grapes are cast into the winepress of God's wrath. The Book of Revelation lets the two harvests stand with both their similarities and their important differences.
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